"...Full-throttle direction makes for fitful,frightfulfun..." USA Today "...A big-budget gore movie that actually delivers the low-budget goods....Consistently fun." -- Rating: A- Entertainment Weekly "...A fang-in-cheek horror thriller that likely will please fans....Zane takes top acting honors, playing the Collector with a winning mix of insinuating menace and smart-alecky flamboyance..." Variety "...The movie has a good time spoofing itself....[With] a look and tone that bring a comic-book's broad strokes into the realm of a live-action movie....The movie wears a phosphorescent grin..." New York Times "...Zane is wittily seductive..." Los Angeles Times59.07804

"...BONES ranks high....Snoop Dogg is every inch the sly, strutting, silky-voiced street hustler..." New York Times "...Snoop Dogg carves out isolated moments of dignity for himself with his coolly charming take on the title character..." Box Office "...BONES has plenty of humor mixed in with blood and gore....The one-liners come quick....Snoop Dogg is cool, calm and charismatic..." Chicago Sun-Times "...Snoop invests snarling meanness with as much authority as Clint Eastwood used to..." Entertainment Weekly59.07804

"...Bracing performances from a cast of newcomers....JUICE is an exciting, disturbing movie that pulses with feeling..."Rolling Stone "...An urgent, pulsating tone..." USA Today "...The film is an inflammatory morality play shot through with rage and despair....[Dickerson] is a born filmmaker. He captures the jittery, combative rhythm of a way of life..."Entertainment Weekly "...[Dickerson] has a terrific eye and some juice of his own....[He] elicits warm, uncomplicated performances from his actors..."New York Times "...Much of the strength of the film comes from the actors....Dickerson finds a rhythm that uses the visuals instead of just flaunting them..."Chicago Sun-Times "...A vivid, promising piece of work..."Los Angeles Times59.07804

"...[The actors] exude a breezy, unself-conscious charm....Memorable for its sheer ambition and occasional flashy style..." New York Times "...Smart and stylish....DEF BY TEMPTATION is vital and funny..." Los Angeles Times "...Stylishly shot by Spike Lee's great cinematographer Ernest Dickerson..." USA Today1.36962

Record Collector (magazine) (p.80) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his programme of R&B, western swing, country boogie and other strands of music that went into the rockabilly melting pot, has the benefit of being both educational and entertaining0.2068085